31 May 2015

Electronic music maker/researcher into creative technologies Dr Ollie Bown is in to talk about interactive music and art for VIVID. And Lloyd Swanton's new suite of 12 compositions, Ambon, draws from the secret, coded prisoner of war diary his Uncle Stuart kept during World War II.

Special Features

We've talked music for 25 years—in the studio, on the festival stage and at the piano. Celebrate 25 years of The Music Show with Phillip Glass and Joan Baez, Bryn Terfel and Odetta, Tim Minchin and Emmylou Harris.

In a year when the music world has lost Bowie and Prince, it's worth remembering the legacy of the iconic jazz engineer Rudy Van Gelder, who died recently aged 91. Mal Stanley recounts a career of Miles Davis and Charles Mingus collaborations that left an indelible mark on jazz music.